What more need I say? They look like ears, and they feel like jelly.
Jelly Ears: 19 Nov 2019
The sun caught these fungi just right. These last throughout the year, but need the rain to *blossom* like this. Otherwise they’re just nobbly brown bits, barely noticeable.
Never seen those before.
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Perhaps they’re a British species? They’re not easy to notice here… till you learn what to look for.
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They look so soft, but I fear they feel something like icy dead flesh, so I’ll just look, not touch.
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Kinda like cartilage… like an ear! Definitely not squelchy 🙂
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These are very pretty! They almost look like candy! 😀
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Yea, but I wouldn’t eat them. I’ve a feeling they’d be tough. Like 10 year old beff jerky! 🙂
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Oh my, did you touch them?!!
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Curiosity got the better of me. I’d thought them more rubbery than they are. But neither are they squishy like jelly-sweets
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They are so unique – nice capture
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I thank you. I’ve been taking photos of these for the past two months. But this one was the best. 🙂
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You have some amazing fungi!
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It’s been an amazing season for fungi. Wet. Wet. And more wet. 🙂
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These little ears remind me of certain jellied candies I used to enjoy; however not sure ears and candy ought to be in the same sentence!! Interesting specimens nonetheless!!
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Cute to look at, but not recommended for eating
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I thought I’d replied to this. WP has the gremlins again.
So, no, not a good idea to eat these. Though I don’t know if they’re edible, I’d say texturally they’re not appetitizing! 🙂
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Well something magical about the deep, damp woods and fungi….rather otherworldly or as a fairy domain. Delicate and colorful in the same way sea going nudibranchs appeal to me.
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Oh yes, the times I get pixie-led while scouting for fungi.
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Amazing!
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Thank you. Stay tuned, plenty more to come this winter… 🙂
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🙂 I sure will!
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🙂
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I would never have known they were fungi! They look like bright little slugs…
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That’s only the angle; they are kinda loosely cup-shaped. I shall probably feature other un-fungi looking fungi as the Sundays wear on… and on… and on… and finally spring will come and bring up bright flowers again
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I realise that. Still, nature is fascinating, isn’t it?
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Nature is the bestest!
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Absoposilutely!
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🙂
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I sure have enjoyed your fun fungi photos.
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I thank you. For a while it’ll be a regulare Sunday feature. Till spring offers up something prettier
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I rather thought they look like chrysalis!
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Yea, I see that. Though as chrysalis they wouldn’t survive, not in the open like that.
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Another new species for me, how interesting! They look a bit like raw meat to me, with marbles of fat, but maybe the texture is more obviously different in real life.
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Amazing how different people liken these to different things. When dry, they look like hard little nuts. It takes plenty of rain to bring them out. And then they’re kinda gristly.
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I imagine the color comes out slightly differently on various people’s screens, too. How would you describe the color as seen in real life? Does it look like the pink of raw steak?
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I’d say it looks purplish rather than pink. But then with the light shining through them… that light was orangey-yellow, more than I’ve every seen. Did wonderful things to the leaves still on the trees. That’s one of the things about the northern latitudes, though we’re not in any way extremely north, yet the southward track of the sun at this time of year really does cause the light to rake across the land. It changes the colour of things.
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